Pre-Algebra
building algebraic fundamentals
I taught Pre-Algebra to 6th and 7th grade students for five years at the University Scholar’s Program with Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School. This class was for gifted or high achieving students, typically entering the program for the first time.
Major topics addressed in this course:
- History of mathematics
- Number sense and computation
- Fractions
- Exponents
- Ratios, proportions, and percent
- Evaluating expressions
- Solving equations and inequalities
- Absolute value
- Graphing in the coordinate plane
- Measurement, Area, Volume, and Right Triangles
- An introduction to linear equations
- Statistics and probability